TS3 was to include weather.
Orange:
Speaking of beaches, I'm still bummed out that you can't go for a swim at the beach, well, unless you build a pool there. I guess.
ProfPlumbob:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2009 September 03, 17:00:08
Quote from: gtachampion on 2009 September 03, 14:06:10
They're in it for the money and they'll get every cent they can. If anyone ever thought they were in it for the game or the players, they need their heads checked. Get real. If they cared about the game or the players, they would be listening to all the forums on all the sites and none of the mods would even be necessary.
I've read arguments like this like a bazillion times in the last couple of months, and to me this still doesn't make any sense at all. It's just twisted. Before I can even think about leeching my customers tomorrow, I have to satisfy them today, and that means I have to care about their wants, a lot. A product has to be convincing on its own, future accessories aren't a factor for the original product's quality.
EAxis care about their customers, I really believe they do. There's only one setback: Most of the customers are sheeples, and they don't mind getting fucked by EAxis over and over again, they might not even notice. Even if they consider a feature uncomplete/unconvincing/borked/whatever they still cling to their hope EAxis would fix/improve it in the future, i.e. with the next EP, despite years of contrary experience.
no, what you really have is almost a bureaucracy at EA, where the Sims team REALLY cares about their customers but are cock blocked by those in the higher ups(can I say "cock blocked"?). But you have these higher up suits at EA that want to make sure their pockets and share holders are pleased. So they make strict guidelines for the Sims team(and the rest of their devisions making games) to finish by, to rush the product out, so you end up getting a lot of stuff left on the cutting room floor. Spend 4 months spending millions on marketing to get their profits looking good for the year, while it takes just days for Pescado to fix their shit and...well, hello? Money is being spent in all the wrong areas. Add to this, the fact that the millions EA is making off Sims 3 isn't all going into Sims 3, but to the suits, and to all the devisions at EA.
Now imagine if Maxis were still its own company that doesn't have to listen to a big cooperation, where they can lay out the time and what they want in a game. THAT is the company that is completely gone and/or too busy listening to higher ups of a billion dollar company. That is a company that was led by someone like Pescado, and who are tragically lost in most of our gaming industry today. The suits ruin everything.
J. M. Pescado:
To be fair, Maxis got eaten by EA because they were essentially completely inept with financial management and manage to drive their company into bankruptcy. So no, they weren't run by someone like me. :P
As for the issue with "suits", "suits" don't run companies well because they don't WANT to run companies well: They want to maximize their short-term profits, burn the place to the ground, and sell the dessicated husk to some sucker, who thinks they can manage to milk this cow some more. If they succeed, one group of rapacious, greedy suits is replaced by an even worse lot. If the new owners fail, the company is consigned to the dustbin of history. Me, I take more of an Empire view: I see a company more as my Empire and manage in a way that it is stays intact and under my rule, and seek to crush my enemies.
ProfPlumbob:
shhh...I was fluffing up Maxis and yourself more than I should have...back away...back away....
Drakron:
Actually EA is more that happy to supply the rope they will hang themselves with ... that is what happen to Origin. In Maxis case they resisted to the bitter end, EA only did see then for SimCity with The Sims being a unexpected success.
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